Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-18

A shreWd editorial In The Globe
Democrat of st, Louis traces the career
Of General B5ulangeF, the French See
Rotary Of War, calls him the Bismarck
Of France, and declares at he has
since Sedan copied the plan marked out
BY Bismarck, which eliminated IN 9
united Germany, q perfectly equipped
army, and prestige for his country
which left Germany after the war With
France where Great Britain was after
Waterloo. He has shown his dashine
courage in the field; be has perfectly
organized the army; be has caused it,
officers IS well ~ men, TO be Thoroughly
drilled and kept In that condition: be
has secured did artillery superior TO
that Of Germany, znd IL fast supplying
the most effective small arma; be has
bad q thorough OVERLAPPING Of the com
missafiat 90 that the olothine and food
are perfect; and for years be has insist
ed that every soldier shall carry about
him Q map Of France as il was before
the two provinces we're wreuOhed from
| her by the uncoatrollable power Of Ger
many, The Glo6s Dssaocrat thinks a
call 10 arms for q contest with Ger
many would produce now an enthusi.
asm In France which has not
been known since the days Of the first
Napoleon. We suspeot this viaw Is very
nearly the correct one, and that IL Il The
steady contemplation OF this which
causes the uns oncegled unrest Of the
two RladiAtoFs 81 Germany. They see
q process going sn which, II uuchecked.
| In another decade will make France 4
military power 80 formidable that q
war with her will be q most hazArdeus
undertaking. They both feel that be.
fore ten years they will both have parsed
away, while the moving genius Of France
has yet fair promise Of q quarter Of a
century Of active work. They eannot
stop the fiieht Of time; what can thsy
DO With. thia terror hanging over ihe
fAtheriand but 10 70 out, while yet they
have Strength, 90 mett 1t? The last
news h that there 10 TO be no European
var. We do not believe IT, II Voc
Molike and Bismarck can obtain the
appropriation sskea for, We believe they
will try every possible pFssext 10 drive
France into q rash movement, and II
they cannot succeed, they viii make
pFetext 20 Justify = declaration Of war
on the part of Germany. They have
already tried 10 ihvolve France, Bat The
men IN control in France realize thai
they can al ,Fd 10 wait when the enemy
they meet fear IL on the verge Of
ninety years Of age. and hence they are
vary and 80 exasperatinaly polite
thai, 30 far, Germany has made no
impression. MeasWhils the men OF
Alsscs and Lorraine refused 20 aaslms.
late with their esnquerers. All their
affections are with Francs. They are
only held By the power Of Germany
the physical poWor-and they, In the
contemplation Of . var, are Z source Of
constant anxiety 10 the couquerors, The
Gnesi regiments Of France are com
SD Of men Who are natives Of thoss
TIVE districts. ana thsir brothers ana
sisters 81 home tell their children that
by and by thew viii ooaas and release
them. They whisper the saory, for Ger
man sanaineis keep watch a. their gates.
We wonder II, after ali, Bismarck does
not, in The qnis Of his own library, fear
that nia ltte has been q failure. He
started cot On the theory that brain
force rules this voFid. On thar thenrv
be has wen the feFsmost trtcmphs OF
hia generation. Bnt - wonder II, IN
himself. ~An cid hsaFt noeds q bose 10
Enaw," and II the steFy % his tFiuupha
do Dot have . Dead See apple taste il bis
soall He has uon the admiration witch
comes throagh fear. He 6nds noe thai
be - not great snoaRh 10 win the afIse.
ttons Of some simple peasants, VITO az
pifs 10 nothing exesps 10 fesd their
babes un eoarae feed and with = pss,
sionate Affections - love thefr 4 tive
lAnd.--Sals Labs TFst4As.